I'm back!

After a monthlong gap in posting due to a combination of long hours at work, disgust with BushCo and the lemminglike dittoheads who voted for them, and the national snark shortage, I'm back.

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Fiend, whose moral and intellectual support (and repeated queries of "when are you going to start blogging again? Huh? Huh?") have prompted me to get back up off my *ss. (Take that, Limes!)

Now among her words of advice were to write about small, everyday, personal things, rather than trying to Solve the Problems of the World. Since the upcoming Quincy World Summit Meetings, to be held concurrently with the annual family holiday reunion dinner, will no doubt supply plenty of opportunities to discuss the parlous state of the world and be informed about how most of its problems are due to the pernicious influence of "liberals", I will for the most part follow that advice. I will studiously ignore the ongoing neocon ideological purge in the US cabinet. I will not comment on the replacement of crusading evangelical Attorney General Ashcroft with Bush's personal lawyer from his salad days in Texas, who advises him that the Geneva Convention's prohibitions against torture, assassination, and other war crimes are "quaint" and "obsolete". Nor will I discuss the replacement of Colin Powell, the only member of the cabinet with actual, recent military administrative experience and any degree of international respect, with Condoleeza Rice, an unquestionably bright woman who nonetheless seems to have a unsettling tendency to refer to her boss as her "husband". Nor will I

Actually, I don't think I'll be able to follow Fiend's advice for very long, despite the risk of being "smited" for criticizing "God's President". I mean, BushCo just cries out to be mocked, doesn't it? Don't those "unser Führer" billboards down in Florida richly deserve to be held up to the derision and horror of those capable of consulting an English-German dictionary or using a simple web translator?